transgressiveness

I'll be commenting on the book at greater length when I've finished it, but your point about its transgressiveness is well-taken.

Our Stories 2009

After half a century this work's "transgressiveness" makes every usage of that term in our etiolated English departments seem stale, pallid, and domesticated.

Hurricane Lolita 2005

After half a century this work's "transgressiveness" makes every usage of that term in our etiolated English departments seem stale, pallid, and domesticated.

Hurricane Lolita 2005

I even enjoy reading hunting columns, though there's an element of transgressiveness to the behavior.

The Thrill of the (Bloodless) Hunt Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Forgive my transgressiveness. (yeah, I know, I just made that up too.)

Waldo Jaquith - You let one openly gay man into the legislature… 2008

Lambert's performance shouted "Screw this genre," and I can understand why some might appreciate the edgy transgressiveness of that artistic statement, but I nonetheless thought it worthy of demerit in context.

Adam Lambert sings "Ring of Fire." Ann Althouse 2009

Warning: the link has a huge spoiler in the second paragraph--maybe everyone else knows the plot, but I didn't, and not knowing it felt like a big part of the enjoyment, because at the end of the first act I was thinking, eh, this is going nowhere, and then the second act blew my mind in its epic transgressiveness.

Archive 2008-01-01 Becca 2008

For all its over-the-top aberrance and brash transgressiveness, GTA IV doesn't really wrestle with the radiant feverish nightmare labyrinth that post-9/11 America has become.

'Grand,' but No 'Godfather' Junot Díaz 2008

Warning: the link has a huge spoiler in the second paragraph--maybe everyone else knows the plot, but I didn't, and not knowing it felt like a big part of the enjoyment, because at the end of the first act I was thinking, eh, this is going nowhere, and then the second act blew my mind in its epic transgressiveness.

OK, Let's Get That Meta Thing Off The Top Becca 2008

I think most BDSM lifestylers would agree that part of the whole point, the whole transgressiveness, is that it's not for everyone.

The Gor books 2007